No excuses — I haven’t been knitting. I haven’t been blogging. Just been a mom and a co-worker and a (tired and sleepy) wife and a slacker of a housekeeper. And busy with school-year commitments, anniversary celebration, kiddo birthday party, our recent rash of colds and stomach bugs, my first few months serving as a Brownie troop leader (a surprisingly huge time sink, although a nice one), and other commitments. And I have started a new novel (writing one, not reading one, for a change — the Snowflake method intrigued me). And, of course, I’ve added 30+ new blogs to my Bloglines subscription since I’ve been dipping into fiction writing again. Choices, choices.
So — guess what? I’m clearing my knitting project slate of all the UFOs because life is too short to keep feeling guilty over half-finished projects.
- The baby bootees are history! The babies are half grown by now and I’ve already chipped in for group gifts. Sorry. ladies — I still love your little darlings, but they’re better off without my knitted ski covers.
- The snarly brown afghan that languished in my den for the better part of this past year? Demolished, and most of the yarn donated to others for charity use.
- The rainbow-colored Gaudy Frog Socks socks that I wanted to make but which I can’t get anyone associated with that pattern to help me figure out why the pattern is screwy? Set aside to be frogged instead of fretted over. Moving on …
Now if I could just find the long-lost guaranteed-to-be-simple shawl pattern that goes with my soft and plummy lace-weight alpaca yarn, I’d get started on something new. Harrumph.
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